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Tuesday... So how is the seed business going?


2 Corinthians 9:6 (NLT), "Remember this - a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop."

Tuesday... So how is the seed business going?

We say we live this life by faith but we don't put in what we are to put in it. You see, we are in the seed business, the planting seed business.


I was talking with a barista friend who is in college and has been accepted into Harvard but that is next year. She still has some work to do here at UNLV and isn't too excited about the time of study she needs to do here. Yes, studying for classes is planting seeds. 2 Corinthians 9:6 (NLT) says, "Remember this - a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop."

We take for granted that it is all upon God and is dependent upon our faith. But how can a crop grow without us planting seeds?

We want good marriages but we leave it up to our mate to do what needs to be done. We want successful kids but don't spend any time with them, planting seeds into their lives. We want our work to be successful but we spend a lot of time on the computer playing games. We want to be healthy but we eat what we want and watch TV all day. We want a great retirement but put no money in savings and/or investments. We want a great relationship with God but never read our Bible, meditate on what it says, connect with God through prayer, go to church and invest financially in His work.

You see, we are in the seed business. But remember this, verse 10 (AMP) says, "Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provided and multiply your seed for sowing [that is, your resources] and increase the harvest of your righteousness [which shows itself in active goodness, kindness and love."

And then verse 11, "You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous, and this [generosity, administered] through us is producing thanksgiving to God [from those that benefit]." Yes, you will be benefited and so will others.

God gives, we plant and others are thankful. Yes, we are in the seed planting business and there will be an harvest if we plant generously. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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